On this day: April 16

LSD's creator drops acid (accidentally) for the first time, Martin Luther King writes his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," The Rolling Stones release their debut album, and tragedy strikes Virginia Tech, all on this day.

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Brunswick Records

1956: Buddy Holly releases his first single, "Blue Days, Black Nights." Low sales of the single, plus a second single, December's "Modern Don Juan," convinced Decca to shelve the remaining tracks Holly had recorded earlier in the year in Nashville. Holly would break out with the song "That'll Be the Day" the following year.

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